On to the next great adventure

2016 is almost here. What are your plans?

My life at the end of 2015…

Do you have any big dreams? Looking back on 2015, what the hell happened? How many things broke apart into a million little pieces? For me, it felt like one big year if rediscovering myself. Which is great, in a way. Except that I sort of figured out that, once I did, I may not fit into the life I’d built for myself.

That’s OK, though. The new year is here (almost) and I can make that my new goal. My running club recently asked everyone to submit their racing plans for 2016 so they could add them to our website. Here’s what I submitted…

1st, and foremost, be awesome.

2nd, outdrink a cowboy. preferably at a ranch somewhere in the desert.

3rd, outrun a lion.

4th, adventure run in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, or Colorado. or, all three.

5th, pull gold out of the earth itself.

6th, discover the source of all things.

7th, play my guitar like a rock god.

8th, hike naked at some point in some undisclosed trail. again.

9th, be with my friends at that pivotal moment when we are ageless, infinite, and indestructible.

10th, drink from a mountain stream and see the milky way above me, knowing that the universe, for a short period in history, created a small blue planet capable of art, music, thought, war, pain, and suffering—and that it will all be forgotten in the grand scheme of things.